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| (...) Thanks, Chris. The windscreen idea came from Dan Siskind. Here is a pic from our last show of an Amtrak F45 he did: (URL) was really made possible by the advent of a new Racers piece, a red 2x4 angled plate used as a spoiler in many of the (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Thanks, Andreas-- you asked for it, you got it, Toyota;-) As for brick count, well, I couldn't even guess. I did *a lot* of SNOT work which is really a lot of monkey business that drives up piece count. Comparing mine with the 10020 in a way (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Looks great John! Can you shed some more details on the windscreen construction? -chris (23 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | Re: Max. Track Slope
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| When I first tried to build my own ramps, I just followed much of the suggestions mentioned by Ross (way back in 1996!). Track Designer can help you out when planning it. Again, if you follow a 2 plates per rail (2ppr) grade, you should not have any (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) There's some good info here (URL) I'm under the assumtion the that down-slope can be as step as the (...) correct? Not necessarily. If there's a curve on the slope, or right at the bottom, the train will be going too fast to take the turn when (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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